John zorn



(No Model.) J ZORN.

PAINTERS STRIPING TOOL.

v No. 514,984. Patented Feb. 20, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN ZORN, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO DAVID WVALLACE, OF SAME PLACE.

PAINTERS STRlPlNG-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 514,984, dated February 20, 1894.

Application filed November 2,1893. Serial No. 439.828. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN ZORN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, and State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improveproduce stripes or lines in decorative painting, decorative kalsomining and the like.

It has for its object an improved form of tool by which either a straight, curved, or broken line may be produced easily and formed with great regularity, without requiring that peculiar skill which has been hitherto required in doing work of this kind.

The tool embodying this invention is used as a storage for the color to'be employed, and is arranged to permit the colored liquid to escapg gradually and regularly when the tool is use In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a tool designed to drawa single line. Fig. 2 shows the disassembled parts of a tool arranged to draw two parallel lines. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a tool adapted to draw two parallel lines, with an intermediate wavy or curved line. I

Aindicatesa cup, having atits mouth opening a flange B, extending outward around the edge of the cup, and extending inward toward the middle in a flange O,the two flanges B and O forming a tabular support for a disk of felt or similar substance, D.

E indicates acup precisely similar to the cup 'A, provided with external flange F corresponding to the flange B, and an internal flange corresponding to the flange C. The two flanges B and F are circular in their external peripheries, and concentric to their peripheries is an axle G that extends through them and forms the axle on which or with which they revolve. Preferably, the axle G is screw threaded, and provided with two nuts, 0 and (1, although one of these maybe dispensed with, and one of the cups may be secured to the axle if desired; or, in place of a nut, a collar may be secured to the axle.

In assembling the parts, the two cups are placed on the axle with the flanges 'B and F adjacent to each other, and with the disk D interposed between them. One of the cups, E, is provided with a filling hole, e, adapted to be closed by a cork or other suitable stopper, and the two cups, with the interposed disk D, are filled with the coloring material to be used for striping purposes. The opening between the flanges is then adjusted so that the mat D lies loosely between them, leaving a thin opening on one or both sides of the mat D between it and the flanges, through which the coloring material can slowly ooze or trickle. In this condition, the tool is ready for work, and can be used for drawing straight lines without any other attachment whatever. For overhead work, however, it is desirable that a handle, H, be attached to the tool, in order that the coloring surface of the disk D may roll on the object to be striped. For work that is below the tool or on side walls, a sufficient quantity of the coloring material would ooze through to keep what may be called the painting or brush part constantly filled with the color; but, for overhead work, the color would fall away from the felt striping surface, and it is consequently desirable that the tool rotate, to present a freshly charged surface at all times to the wall above it. For this purpose, the ends of the axle G are journaled in bearings in the handle H. I prefer to make the cone bearings, as, when so constructed, the axle can be sprung in and out of the handle very easily.

When it is desired to produce parallellines, I interpose between the cups A and E a double flanged ring K and two felt washers similar to D. If a curved or wavy line having sharp curves is desired, the flanges may be bent or regulated as indicated in Fig. 3 at f and g, and a bent or corrugated piece of felt inserted between them. It is evident that a great variety of dilferent figures maybe produced by giving to the flanges different curves, as may be desired.

The felt disk is kept in place with respect to the axle so that its outer periphery is concentric'withthe axle, by a number of, spurs or pins it t that project from one or from 3. The combination of two color holding both of the flanges 0. cups, an interposed color distributing disk,

The opening through the felt disk and the an axle concentric to the cups, means for adopening through the flanges O is much larger justing the cups on said axle, and a support 5 than the axle, and permits the free passage of for said axle. 1 the coloring fluid between the cups A and E. 4. The combination of color holding cups, What I claim isa plurality of color distributing disks, and 1. The combination of two color holding spacing rings interposed between the color cups arranged with their mouth openings opdistributing disks, substantially as described. 10 posite each other, and an interposed color In testimony whereof Isign this specifica- 2 distributing disk, substantially as described. tion in the presence of two witnesses. v

2. The combination of two color holding JOHN ZORN. cups, an axle concentric to them, and an in- Witnesses: terposed color distributing disk, substantially 1 CHARLES F. BURTON,

I5 as described. MARION A. REEVE. 

